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Empty land doesn't get sick. The people in Sweden are concentrated in one fairly dense area, Stockholm.

I don't think the overall #people/surface area of the country is something meaningful to compare.

I hypothesize that comparing Sweden and Germany is about the same as comparing Stockholm to an average of German cities. I don't have the German and Swedish skills to find and compare the data though

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> The people in Sweden are concentrated in one fairly dense area, Stockholm.

So exactly like Norway, were almost all people live around Oslo/Bergen

“Empty land doesn't get sick”

That’s exactly the point. In Norway and Sweden, unlike Germany, there is a huge amount of empty land. For this reason it doesn’t make sense at all to compare Sweden with Germany when you have a far, far better comparison in the nearby country.

If you have a hypothetical country with a huge swath of empty land, and a single city with the population density of Hong Kong, the population density of that country will appear to be low, but in fact all the people living in the country live in a highly dense city. Perhaps a better measure than population/land area would be the average of the population density in the square kilometer surrounding each inhabitant (or something like that).

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